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Good ad. I don't know if I would move the vampire quote to the beginning of the ad or not. The private equity business isn't that complex to explain, but it may be on the far side of the undecided voter's attention and comprehension. So you have to combat the sloganeering of the Obama camp with something equally simple. It's too bad, but if you engage in a fully developed defense on this issue, you loose the voter in question.

Before this testimonial, there were people who didn't know the GST-Armco tale. Now they see only the Mitt - Bain side without having heard the accusations.

Intelligent people will understand, but the unionists with rings in their noses will hear: "See, now we have them on the run, because they are weakly reacting to our truth that working people were harmed by Bain."

Which takes me back to the Spanish language TV of my childhood. Excuse my self-indulgent reminiscence, but I've always thought there should be more political references to El Chapulín Colorado. "¡No contaban con mi astucia!"

I find pretty much all the famous Chapulín phrases, conveniently listed by Wikipedia here, relevant to this campaign season.

The green energy debacle is the best target but you have to have an IQ above room temperature to understand Romney and his career. That is a big handicap.

Michael Medved had another of the "ethnic callers" on his show today. I wonder how much the DNC pays them? They can't get very far off the script without making fools of themselves. Do the Democrats think that is helping ?

How does one explain standard business concepts like "depreciation" and carrying over losses from year to year to folks who just have no experience in the matter? Have you ever tried to explain that corporations pay taxes on PROFITS while salaried/hourly waged individuals pay taxes on adjusted INCOME?

I can already see your eyeballs glazing over.....

The basics of corporate accounting aren't quantum mechanics difficult, but they're definitely not in everyone's day to day experience. That's why attacks such as Obama's on Bain & Romney can get such traction.

Life is hard. Sometimes your life is controlled by other people and events. Who would you rather control your livelihood, private investors or the gubmint?

With Bush/Cheney we heard incessantly about Halliburton and the secret energy meetings. Today we see, out loud and proud, one company of blood sucking parasites after the other. So far, the GOP seems to have disbursed the least amount of taxpayer money to business.

I don't think most people are as dumb as the Democrats wish they were. You can be certain that we'll see Obama attack Bain again either directly or by media proxy. Ceding every issue to the "too complicated" pile is not going to help us. Romney's focus is the economy and Paul Ryan is on the ticket. What are we waiting for?

What people fail to understand is that without Bain, most of distressed companies they took over would have failed. People make the same mistake when it comes to offshoring; they assume the affected company, department or project would have continued without any changes.

The vampire (bad) vs. blood transfusion (good) metaphor at the heart of this ad is really strange. I realize that they are reacting to the other side's stuff and characterizing O's ads as righty politicos would see them. But, still, given who the audience is (the least tuned in and most easily tuned out), they could have taken a page from Clint's playbook and done it with humor rather than sarcasm.

Perhaps the ad's author used the 'blood' metaphor because Team R intends to show it at the American College of Hematologists or something? Likely to be an R-leaning crowd. Or maybe the guy who wrote the script (has to have been a guy, agreed?) was a Stephanie Meyer wannabe?

Whatever. An ad like this would have been a great idea two months ago, even though better late than never. Still the script could have used a rewrite, and a lighter touch.

Working in the steel industry, I know exactly what happened with GST (although it occurred when I was just starting in steel).

But it doesn't matter. Facts don't matter, as long as you put forward a good sob story (real or not) which gives a reason to not vote for the Other Guy.

The Other Guy you didn't like anyway, because he is 'rich' [richer than you] and since it's a zero sum game (sic) he must have got that way way taking from others. If only I had some touchy-feely evidence...

I don't particularly 'like' Romney. But I'm not voting him into my 'friends' list: I'm voting for the chief to run a Big-Fking-Country. President of the United States, not the President of the Majority of the People.

Working in the steel industry, I know exactly what happened with GST (although it occurred when I was just starting in steel).

But it doesn't matter. Facts don't matter, as long as you put forward a good sob story (real or not) which gives a reason to not vote for the Other Guy.

The Other Guy you didn't like anyway, because he is 'rich' [richer than you] and since it's a zero sum game (sic) he must have got that way way taking from others. If only I had some touchy-feely evidence...

I don't particularly 'like' Romney. But I'm not voting him into my 'friends' list: I'm voting for the chief to run a Big-Fking-Country. President of the United States, not the President of the Majority of the People.